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Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, Vol. 31, No. 2, 243-253 (2005)
DOI: 10.1177/0146167204271421

Infrahumanization or Familiarity? Attribution of Uniquely Human Emotions to the Self, the Ingroup, and the Outgroup

Brezo P. Cortes

Catholic University of Louvain at Louvain-la-Neuve

Stéphanie Demoulin

Catholic University of Louvain at Louvain-la-Neuve and Belgian National Fund for Scientific Research

Ramon T. Rodriguez

University of La Laguna

Armando P. Rodriguez

University of La Laguna

Jacques-Philippe Leyens

Catholic University of Louvain at Louvain-la-Neuve, Jacques-Philippe.Leyens{at}psp.ucl.ac.be

People attribute more secondary emotions to their ingroup than to outgroups. This effect is interpreted in terms of infrahumanization theory. Familiarity also could explain this differential attribution because secondary emotions are thought to be less visible and intense than primary ones. This alternative explanation to infrahumanization was tested in three studies. In Study 1, participants attributed, in a between-participants design, primary and secondary emotions to themselves, to their ingroup, or to an outgroup. In Study 2, participants answered for themselves and their ingroup or for themselves and an outgroup. In Study 3, participants made attributions to the ingroup or a series of outgroups varying in terms of familiarity. The data do not support an explanation in terms of familiarity. The discussion centers on conditions not conducting to infrahumanization.

Key Words: infrahumanization • essentialism • familiarity • emotions


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